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Countries that manage Antarctica want strong new controls on ships visiting the frozen continent to reduce the growing threat of human and environmental disasters posed by exploding numbers of tourists, an official said Wednesday. Antarctica's pristine environment, unpredictable and extreme...

New Zealand is preparing for some rare spring visitors. More than 100 icebergs that were first spotted off the coast of Macquarie Island, an Australian territory around 900 miles south east of Tasmania, are now thought to be only 200...

Overnight the Guardian's Fred Pearce issued a scathing attack on New Zealand's record on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and claimed we were unfairly trading on our clean, green image. The story has generated some heated debate already and experts have...

New Zealand — Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that groups of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday. The alert comes three years after cold...

00 19/11/2009 Prime Minister John Key has put a price to farmers on their contribution to an emissions trading scheme. The cost of paying for stock emissions of methane and nitrous oxide in 2030 would be around $3000 a farmer,...

Prime Minister John Key says he is looking forward to new water storage schemes being built soon in the South Island. "I'm really confident you'll see water storage capability built in the South Island next year," he told a Federated...

Robert and Brenda Vale have written that owning a great dane does more damage then owning an SUV. These findings were published in their appropriately- titled new book, Time to Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living. Advise...